phantasy star portable is out, and i can't find a SINGLE thread on the first two pages discussing it. this is an utter disgrace, especially when i see a 10 dickrillion page thread on killzone-fucking-2, quite possibly the most uninspired piece of drek since the LAST overhyped quasi-military first-person masturba-thon.
i KNOW some of you stankrags like pso, and most of you --wisely -- hated psu, but you should still be interested in psp on psp. why? because it is far more pso than psu, even if it uses many psu assets and locales.
here's why, plebes:
NO CRAFTING. OH GOD YES PULL DOWN MY CHINOS AND MAKE FOR THE GLORY THERE IS NO CRAFTING. everything comes in the form of drops. LOOT, REAL GOD-LOVIN' LOOT, not a bunch of crap materials and endless inventory sorting.
the graphics are slick, load times are fast, the controls have been overhauled, the story mode is nice and fast-paced, the stupid gargantuan lobbies have been replaced by convenient menus, the ad hoc network play is flawless. it's basically all the good bits of pso -- the quick dungeon entry and great boss fights and random loot loot LOOT -- mixed with the good of psu -- the greater weapon variety, the weapon specials, and the improved character customization. illuminus' silly redundant classes have been knocked down to eight total, and the story mode is brisk (albeit inane and forgettable in the fashion of all of the recent phantasy star games).
also, i think alfa systems has beefed up or at least improved the combat effects. the plasma whips look awesome instead of retarded, now. i'm actually impressed at how this isn't a port of an awful game (universe og) or a middling one (illuminus), but rather a complete revamp that feels far more pso than psu -- especially in terms of loot and combat rhythm. i can see why this sold an order of magnitude better than the prequels even WITH its appeal to the monster hunter psp crowd. in fact, it's good sega outsourced it, because i am sure sonic team -- who hasn't made a good game since the original pso, and hadn't made one previous to it either -- would have just dumped a low asset version of psu on the psp and colored it up with some retarded naka-ism, like making it a card game or putting the movement entirely on the l/r buttons.
buy this. you will adore it. play it with your friends. white man chased me and my diaper penguin around the starting dungeon wielding a whip and clad only in a tight green man-bikini, and i think i liked it.
DISCUSS.
edit: this post originally existed
per se in its own fine thread, but some butthurt sony fanmod dumped it in this dull-ass purgatory. killzone 2 still sucks!
is absolute throw-away. The cutscenes are all VA'ed but man they are really bad and soooo cheesy.
